
“A barren superfluity of words.”
The Dispensary, Canto II, line 95.
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith (c. May 1928)
Letters
“A barren superfluity of words.”
The Dispensary, Canto II, line 95.
England's Ideal: And Other Papers on Social Subjects (1887) p. 54
Quoted in "Govt behind Ballali death? I`ll resign..." http://ippmedia.com/ipp/guardian/2008/05/26/115168.html The Guardian (2008-05-26)
“Man is in love and loves what vanishes,
What more is there to say?”
I, st. 5-6
The Tower (1928), Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1547/
Context: But is there any comfort to be found?
Man is in love and loves what vanishes,
What more is there to say?
Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6.
“The time shall come
When man to man shall be a friend and brother.”
Hope on, hope ever, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Lo que dicen las palabras no dura. Duran las palabres. Porque las palabras son siempre las mismas y lo que dicen no es nunca lo mismo.
Voces (1943)